Home Energy Monitor Program

Peak Partners helps you
to be more efficient

Watch your bill drop as you learn about your energy habits and make small changes that can make a big difference.

The Home Energy Monitor provides real-time tracking of your household electricity use in kilowatts, kilowatt hours, dollars and cents.1 Track your electricity use and see exactly where you could be saving.

The monitor is available for check out at all three Poudre River Public Libraries. You can borrow the monitor just like a book. It's that easy!

Device Features

Stand it on the kitchen counter or put it on the refrigerator. Make saving energy a family affair. Load the batteries or just plug it in, then call us at 855-350-1464 to activate the meter link. In moments you’re ready to start saving. (Service only available to Fort Collins Light & Power customers.)

Meter Reading

Current Price

Time

View current time and date

Using your Home Energy Monitor

Four tips to make sense of your home energy use.

Shine a light on inefficient lighting.

Try turning on and off different lights in your home and see the power difference in your monitor. (It may take up to 15 seconds for the monitor to update.) Find out which light(s) in your home are the most energy hungry and consider replacing them with CFLs or LEDs.

Discover which appliance is burning a hole in your wallet.

Learn through your monitor how much power is being used by your microwave, toaster, or electric oven. Repeat the observation with your electric dryer.

Expose the power "vampires" draining you dry.

Turn on your entertainment center and observe how much power is being used. Then turn it off and note how much power it is still using. Now unplug the entertainment center. Chances are when you unplugged the system the power usage of your home went even lower. Many electronics in your home use electricity even when they are turned "off." Consider investing in smart power strips or unplugging electronics that are used only occasionally.

Know your nightly energy usage.

Just before going to bed and when your home is in "sleeping mode" (i.e. most lights and equipment is off) observe the amount of power being used by your home. Multiply that number by 0.24. The resulting number is an estimate of how many kWh are being used by your home "while you are sleeping" over the course of a month. Compare that number with the total monthly energy use of your home (from your latest energy bill). What is the fraction of energy being used "while you are sleeping" in your home? Ideally it should be 15% or less of your home's total energy use.

Plug in the monitor and wait a few seconds for the device to boot. Push both buttons for about five seconds and release them.

You will see a screen prompt asking you to "Restart?". Push both buttons again for five seconds and release them.

You will then see a screen prompt asking for "Hard Reset". Select "Reset" with the upper button. When prompted "Are you sure?", select "Disconnect from meter" with the upper button. Your monitor is now ready to connect to your electric meter.

How to configure your Home Energy Monitor to display information in dollars and cents.

Privacy

Fort Collins Utilities takes data privacy very seriously and complies with local, state and federal laws to protect our customers' personal data and information. All customer information - including personal data, utility use and more - are strictly protected. Fort Collins Utilities is subject to the Colorado Open Records Act and Fort Collins Municipal Code, which govern the accessibility of public records. Utilities is also subject to the Red Flags Rules of the FACT Act (Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003), which requires creditors to create and implement a program to detect, prevent and mitigate identity theft.

Copyright

Fort Collins Utilities retains copyrights on all text, graphic images, design, sound, and other content. This means that you may not: distribute the text or graphics to others without the express permission of Fort Collins Utilities; "mirror" this information on your server without our permission; or modify or re-use the text or graphics on this system. You may print copies of the information for your own personal use and; reference this server from your own documents. Commercial use of the materials is prohibited without the permission of Fort Collins Utilities. In all copies of this information, you must retain this notice and any other copyright notices originally included with such information.